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They Might Be Giants band to help launch new K-12 arts education website for Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON - The Kennedy Center plans to launch its new arts education website with a concert by the rock band They Might Be Giants. The centre announced the free Oct. 2 concert Wednesday. The even...
Correction: ABC-Westin story
NEW YORK, N.Y. - In a story Sept. 7 about ABC seeking a news chief, The Associated Press erroneously identified Richard Wald as Columbia University president. He is a Columbia professor. ...
'Cause this is thriller: Left for dead by MTV, music videos rebound on Web
NEW YORK, N.Y. - It wasn't long ago that the music video was on life support. MTV — which will hold its 27th annual Video Music Awards on Sunday — phased out videos in favour of reality program...
Former CBS weatherman Mark McEwen to visit 'The Early Show' 5 years after devastating stroke
NEW YORK, N.Y. - CBS News says its former weatherman Mark McEwen will return to "The Early Show" for his first nationally televised weathercast since a near-fatal stroke five years ago. The network...
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback 1. "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press) (F-H) 2. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) (F-P) 3. "1...
Colbert celebrates US troops' return from Iraq with Vice-President Biden, beer, hot dogs
NEW YORK, N.Y. - A hot dog vending cart was wheeled back and forth. Cocktail waitresses hurried past with trays full of beer. Vice-President Joe Biden led New York Yankees great Yogi Berra by the arm....
Venice Film Festival: Tsui blends fantasy, martial arts, special effects for "Detective Dee"
VENICE, Italy - Hong Kong's action film master Tsui Hark returns to the big screen with "Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame", a new cloak-and-dagger martial arts blockbuster set in the Tan...
Diverse singers, blacklight performers advance to 'America's Got Talent' finale
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Three very different singers and a group of special-effects wizards got talent — and votes. Soulful 30-year-old crooner Michael Grimm, flashy 32-year-old showman John "Princ...
Singers, blacklight performers advance to 'America's Got Talent' finale
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Three very different singers and a group of special-effects wizards got talent. Soulful 30-year-old crooner Michael Grimm, over-the-top 32-year-old showman John "Prince Poppyc...
British journalist Piers Morgan to start in January as Larry King's replacement at CNN
NEW YORK, N.Y. - British tabloid veteran Piers Morgan, hired by CNN to start as Larry King's replacement as a prime-time interviewer in January, promised that he "came here to win." CNN nailed down...
